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Llana Giovara
Llana Giovara
Vice President, Go-to-Market IT
AI & IT | Cisco Operations
Llana Giovara has built her career at the intersection of business and technology, helping global organizations rethink how they operate, engage customers, and drive growth. Today, as Vice President of Go-to-Market IT at Cisco, she leads the technology strategy and transformation behind the company's global sales, marketing, partner, and customer experience ecosystem.
As part of Cisco's AI & IT leadership team, Llana is focused on harnessing AI, data, and emerging technologies to simplify complexity, accelerate innovation, and create meaningful business impact. She brings a business-first perspective to technology leadership, with a track record of connecting strategy to execution and transforming how organizations operate.
Before joining Cisco, Llana spent 13 years at Salesforce, most recently serving as Vice President of Marketing Technology and Operations. Her career also includes leadership roles at Symantec and experience spanning marketing, customer acquisition, analytics, and business operations.
Llana is passionate about building high-performing teams, developing talent, and fostering a culture where people feel empowered to think differently, challenge the status quo, and do their best work. She believes the most successful transformations happen when great people, innovative thinking, and technology come together around a shared purpose.
Llana holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of San Diego.
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Cisco is transforming 2-Tier distribution by moving beyond rigid APIs to agentic AI. With partners like Ingram Micro and TD SYNNEX, we’re automating workflows and empowering the channel with a more efficient, secure, and scalable ecosystem.
